Galerie Friese
Galerie Friese

SAUL STEINBERG

Biography

1914Born in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania
1932Studies of philosophy and literature at Bucharest University
1933–1940Architectural studies and doctorate at the Regio Politecnico, Facoltà di Architettura, Milan
1940–1941Failed immigration attempt to the US, followed by arrest and subsequent internment in an Italian penal camp
1941Another attempt to escape to the US, stay in the Dominican Republic
1943Acceptance of American citizenship
1943–1945Military service and propagandist cartoonist for the US in North Africa and Italy
1999Died in New York
  

Exhibitions (Selection)

2021–2022 Saul Steinberg, Between the Lines, Galerie d’art graphique, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2019 LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS. William N. Copley, Robert Frank, Saul Leiter & Saul Steinberg (in collaboration with Kicken Berlin), Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin 2017 Saul Steinberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. 2014         Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition, The Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill, New York 2013 Saul Steinberg – The Americans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2006 Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York / Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C. / Cincinnati Art Museum / Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris / Kunsthaus Zürich / Dulwich Picture Gallery, London / Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 1978–79 Saul Steinberg (retrospective), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. / Serpentine Gallery, London / Foundation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence 1974–75 Saul Steinberg, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne / Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart / Kestner-Gesellschaft; Hannover / Kulturhaus der Stadt Graz / Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna 1967 Steinberg: The Americans. Aquarelles, Dessins et Collages 1955-67, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels / Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Hamburger Kunsthalle